I'm not 100% sure if there's a TAG issue here, but based on some recent
correspondence, I thought I should bring this forward for some
meta-discussion. In July I submitted a set of 8 comments on the XQuery
Working Drafts, at
http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/public-qt-comments/2002Jul/0007.html
Among other things I argued that XQuery should be decoupled from XML
Schema and made specific suggestions as to how this might be
accomplished. In September I received an official response to my
XSchema argument from the XQuery WG, at
http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/public-qt-comments/2002Sep/0019.html
My arguments were rejected on a variety of grounds, in substantial part
non-technical. One of the main reasons for XQuery's tight linkage to
XML Schema was "strong W3C guidance" that other W3C recommendations
should be used, and that furthermore, it would be helpful to XML Schema
to have XQuery using it.
The XQuery Working Group's response continues "While this is clearly a
decision for the Architecture team..." which I guess means the TAG.
I'm hardly unbiased here because I strongly disagree with the direction
the XQuery WG is going here on technical grounds. Furthermore, I think
that if this issue were being discussed on purely technical terms,
some decisions might be different.
So does anyone think there's an issue here we ought to take up? -Tim